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D. C. Forney Skins Cameron

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
August
Year
1872
Copyright
Public Domain
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The following is tho concluding portion of h letter t'rom 1). C. Forney to tho Philadelphia Pre: ( taneral Csmcron is tho original autlior ot' all the ooFPuption, debasement, plund( r, nrid prostitution whioh have ais the elective Franchise, the legislation and the management of thu finalices of Pennaytvania. When he was iirstelectcd United ■ Senator, in 1854, he purohased tho vetes whioh (M.■nr■l him . lt was tlie Krnt tin-.e n l'.iinsylv.inii Legiilatu ■ was debauebad by tho uso of luoney, and he is the firet man who bought a seat i" the United Statea Senate. [n L857 he repcutL'.i the same gttme. "! intenso was tho indignation feit uil over PennBylrania at the act, that the Legialature passed resolationa oensuring tbc Senator eleot, and asking the United State Seuato not to ruceivo him. Iu ISiu, when lie was elccted tho thinl time to tho Senatc - the term he i now serving- it oo8t fifty thousawd dollnrs to secure tlif resultt and that nioney was aado by the Htate Tressury Ring ou duïosita ot' State money i" Cameron's own j.iuks, whioh win loaned at usurious ■utr.n nf iiiturst. to all nlasnos of dosuuratö speculator. The ri-Bult of such a publio oareer hi8 buen tü rentier General Camernu 00111pletely infamous - utterly odious to Penasylvatiiu. Ho is r'Mjnrded tliere as the head of n nnioo as villainoua as tliat of '.... !':iuiuiui!y i Xew York. Whilo hc vas Becretary of War hia Bfttellites weie enriohed os if by mngio, and any oiw imiliar mith the Imnkg of the Susquoiiüiiini rivur frontin llirrislrarg, bus eeu, in tilo pulsees wliicli riso in tlmt neighborbood, tho roRults of the Oamron rin plunder wiiilo tho okl obief was Socretary of War. Tbe Canierona ftre known to the people :is hnving beooiae rich out of their mal featanoe in office, eoining gigantio fortuües while tho natiou jioured out itR richest blood, and guthering wealth in the enjoyment of oontraott wbioh were niarkod by such frmidB au havu sent the Tiiiiimany King of NoW York iuto ctiuiiual oxilo. General Cameron, in connoction with bis son Donald, bis brother William, aud a few choice spirits of like (jualities, own or control somo niuo banks, every ouo of which is curried on by doposits froui thu State Treasury. Tho country remembera the way in whieh lie maimged to get iuto Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet agaiiiHt tho judgment and the wishes of the peoplw of l'ennsylvimiii. Hu was forued upon Oíd Abe, and to show how this was acoompliabed, I guote i'rom ono of Mr. Linooln's biographera : como y'r. Linooln'a soruples, nul th whole t'urce wus necessarily raustered to accomplish it. ' Ail that I uu in tho world, said Mr. Linoo'n, 'the Preeidenoy and all else, 1 owe to that opinión of me which thu people expresa when they cali me Bonest Oíd Abe. Now, what will they r.hink of their Honeat Abe when he nppoints Simón Otmorou to bo Lia familiar advisiT ': ' " O&oe in the Cabinet, (rcncral Cameron üiitcly surroundfd himself with U the planderen ready to gorge fchemaelves ut the pubüc crib. making in 1M than a milli in.-.ir.; of bis eldest son, who bad a leadiug ghare m every oontraot filled iii Sarrinburg, Forcing anotber son into the regalar ariuy üs paymaater, and placing a brother-in-ïtiw in ti similar positiüu in tho eamo snrvice. I havo laaild tlii? communication al ready tuo Icm;, bat givn me room lor a few moro word. The Kepubliean party is i in l'i ni"-; and Sim. ui ( ' imerou'i pursuual role and p litical prostitutioas are the causea which wM produce the disaster, ii. i. the only way i.jr üji people to get rid of hira and breuk up the vii.; oombintttion which hu oaloulatès to fastfii on the Stato aítor he i !is j;riive. lt is tl;e only esefvpe trom hin poilutiona and tbc plander, !i:is txiüod s his f ■.Jy way to Hk''1 "1' the d'irk plaoes i:i tii" financio] ííiirs of ylviuiiii: to cleanse its :iuditig oiflce ; to fix. proper guarda aronnd ita 'fr-osury, mul prevent its Chief Magistratc trom becoming a, vmös1 of th Clan Oameron. A Bepublioim defeat :it thin time, 1 iidmit, is :i fearful venturo, but the tremendous influenees demandiag it in Pe&nsyltrania aro like the knife of the surgeon wbioh cuta (i'c[ into a rotten part to save iin en tire body front iVsteriup corrnption and death. f rcjoice to feel, tnerefore, that the people cï Ponnsylv u.i'j are moved by suoh a spirit., and the poople of the whole country will be gld j wliun tliis corrupt riug is sent to tho grave of Tammany.

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